extravehicular activities performed by the ISS Expedition Crew 10

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE
about extravehicular activities performed by the ISS Expedition Crew
10


January 26, 2005. Korolev, Moscow area.
The Expedition Crew 10 (ISS-10) of the International Space Station
(ISS) performed the first egress into space out of EVAs scheduled for this
increment.
The crew commander, Leroy Chiao, NASA astronaut and flight engineer,
Salizhan Sharipov, Russian Cosmonaut left the Orbital Complex through the
egress hatch of the Pirs compartment-module of the Russian Segment, that was
open at 10:42 Moscow time.
Upon successful completion of the scheduled EVA program activities
that took about 5.5 hours, the crew came back to Pirs module, having closed
the egress hatch at 16:11.
The crew installed the universal work platform (URM-D) structure on
the external surface of the Russian Service module Zvezda designed for
simultaneous accommodation and operation of up to three external payloads of
150 kg each, and placed Rokviss hardware thereon (Contract activity with
DLR, German Space Agency), inspected and made pictures of the nozzle gas
flow outlet of Electron, Vosdukh systems and trace contaminant removal
system of the manned pressurized compartments. At the same time Biorisk-MSN
hardware was installed externally on Pirs module, MPAC&SEED experiment
hardware panels were transferred and assembled (experiment performed by the
Russian party by request of the Japanese National Space Agency and designed
for investigation of space environment effects on the Japanese Experimental
Module material and coating samples in the ISS operating orbit).
The data exchange between the ISS and Mission Control Center in Moscow
(MCC-M) was performed in the Russian ground site coverage. Outside this
coverage the data was exchanged through the U.S. facilities.
According to the crew and LOCT providing control and monitoring of the
Russian Segment flight reports the crew feels well, and the ISS onboard
systems operate normally.
The ISS on-orbit complex consists of Functional Cargo Module Zarya,
Service Module Zvezda, docking compartment-module Pirs, transport spacecraft
Soyuz-TMA-5 and Progress M-51, modules Unity and Destiny, airlock Kvest,
multi-link truss structure with deployed solar arrays.
One more egress into space in the frame of the flight program is
scheduled for the ISS-10 crew this March.
The progress of EVA operations was observed by managers and
specialists of S.P. Korolev RSC Energia, Roskosmos, DLR, Yu. Gagarin CTC
RGNII and other companies and industry organizations supporting EVA program
implementation, which were present at MCC-M.



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